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← 63 WVA 45 - Ferrell v. Simmons

Ferrell v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis

1907

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
3
states following
June 2003
most recently cited

4 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 2003

4 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Relationships

Relies on 29 W. Va. 385 - White v. Foote L. & M. Co.

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A judgment not designating in whose favor it is rendered is void for uncertainty.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “The judgment must designate with certainty the party against whom it is rendered.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.